BepiColombo's Mercury flyby captures stunning new images.

The European Space Agency's BepiColombo probe made its third close flyby of Mercury, capturing images of the planet's surface riddled with craters, ancient volcanic ridges, and lava flows. The images also revealed a variety of ancient impact basins flooded with volcanic lavas during the first billion years of the planet's life. The spacecraft unfortunately couldn't take images during its closest approach, as it arrived at the planet from the night side. The BepiColombo mission comprises two orbiters that cruise through space stacked on top of each other, which means that some of the probes' instruments are hidden at the moment.